Alan Halsall, famed for his role as the endearing mechanic Tyrone Dobbs on Coronation Street since 1998, left his I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates in awe during Wednesday night’s episode with a revelation about his career.
In a candid chat about their professional lives, Alan, 42, shared that his daughter Sienna, whom he co-parents with former spouse and soap actress Lucy-Jo Hudson, aspires to be an actress too.
Alan said: “Sienna says to me: ‘Dad, your job is so easy… if you get it wrong, you just do it again. On stage, I can’t get it wrong.’ Oh yeah. But I treat my work like that, I only get one shot at this!”
He continued explaining his unique approach to learning his lines: “Driving to work in the morning, when I get my script, I just go like that and that’s it! Let’s say I’ve got ten scenes on a Thursday, I can’t learn Thursday’s on Tuesday because I might have ten scenes on Wednesday so I’ve got to get through Wednesday before I can learn Thursday’s and then it just happened like that. So now I just learn it in the morning!”, reports the Express.
McFly’s Danny Jones was notably impressed by Alan’s skill, expressing his amazement with: “It’s amazing he can do it like that… it takes me years to learn my lyrics. To be able to do that is some talent!”
Taking to Twitter, now X, one viewer said after the scene aired: “Alan is amazing the way he can remember things #ImACeleb”, a different account put: “FINALLY some Alan airtime #ImACeleb”, another wrote: “Alan learning his lines on the day #imaceleb” with a laughing emoji while a different viewer added: “Hahaaa, that actually makes perfect sense, now, Alan, when you put it like that! #ImACelebrity #ImACeleb.”
This follows the revelation made by Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine about her fellow cast member Alan during an interview on This Morning last week.
Alan, famed for his role as Tyrone and currently on I’m A Celebrity, was the topic of conversation when Jennie, who portrays Fiz Brown and is herself a former jungle contestant from 2017, joined This Morning live from the iconic Rovers Return Inn.
When host Dermot O’Leary inquired if Jennie had any concerns for Alan’s time in the jungle, particularly considering he might be a homebody, she responded confidently: “A homebody but also not nervous at all, no I wasn’t.”
She went on to say: “I knew he’d be great, he is what you see, I knew he’d get on with people that’s what you’ve got to do when you’re there, get on with people, muck in.”
Jennie added: “He is a homebody, he loves his home comforts but he is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. In his older age now he does less of it but back in the day he did. I think he would have loved a skydive or something similar. Anything a bit scary, he’s alright with!”
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! airs every night at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITV X.